It's not entirely clear whether the lack-of-knees is a 'Photoshop fail', as some have declared, or a deliberate decision, to add to the overall weirdness of the picture.

Trecartin and Fitch's previous work has been described as a "sci-fi theater of the absurd" by Art in America, and W quotes Massimiliano Gioni, artistic director at New York's New Museum, saying of them: "They are probably the only ones directly wired to the future … Their vision of tomorrow is equally terrifying and liberating, Edenic and apocalyptic."